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Fourways are a small firm of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Tax Advisers who generously support the Arts Festival and specialise in offering a fixed fee, personal service to individuals and owner managed businesses. |
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Johnson Matthey
Johnson Matthey, a world leader in advanced materials technology, is a major local employer and the main sponsor of the Festival. |
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North Hertfordshire District Council
North Hertfordshire District Council is one of the many generous sponsors of the Royston Arts Festival. |
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Royston Town Council
Royston Town Council administers the Brian Leslie Racher Trust, which has provided generous funding for the festival. |
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Penn Sassoli
Penn Sassoli, one of our generous sponsors, have been offering legal services to the Royston community for more than 25 years. |
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Solutions for Business
Flags for the Festival Concert were kindly printed by Solutions for Business, a busy copy shop situated in Royston specialising in short run print jobs. |
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The wonderful people at the office supplies shop in the High Street sold tickets for many of our events. |
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Tesco provided substantial sponsorship of our Grand Opening Cabaret.
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Participants |
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CADS
Corvus Amateur Drama Society (CADS) is Royston's local drama group and meets regularly at Greneway School. |
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Papillon Playgroup
Papillon Playgroup, which runs our Messy Crafts session, offers a safe and friendly environment for 2 and 3 year-olds to learn while having fun. |
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Cumbrian born sculptor and former Hertfordshire Art teacher Paul Bainbridge sculptures and drawings reflect the expertise required to have been a freelance portrait sculptor for Madame Tussaud's for twelve years. |
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James Dilley specialises in ancient crafts including flint-knapping and leather work. |
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Priory Singers
Formed from the choir of Royston Parish Church in 2001, the Priory Singers sing music of all ages, from the 16th to 21st centuries. |
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The Royston Art Society is made up of nearly 100 people, most living in either Royston or the surrounding villages. They meet twice a month for practical sessions and once for professional demonstrations. |
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Royston Choral Society
Formed in 1974, Royston Choral Society performs a wide variety of choral music in four concerts a year, usually in Royston Parish Church. |
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Royston Little Voices
Royston Little Voices is an arts group for children aged between 5 and 9 years old which aims to engage children in creative music and drama activities. |
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Royston Music Centre is one of the four music schools run by the Hertfordshire Music Service in North Hertfordshire. It meets on Saturday mornings at Meridian School. |
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Royston Photographic Society
The Photographic Society provides a forum for amateur photographers of all abilities to share their work and interests, as well as organising a variety of competitions and quizzes. |
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Royston Town Band
Royston Town Band can proudly boast of serving the town during three centuries and is an integral part of the town's musical and social life, particularly in its encouragement of young people to take up a musical instrument. |
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The Writers Circle for Royston and the surrounding area (Hertfordshire/Cambridgeshire) meets on the third Thursday of the month in the Committee Room at Royston Town Hall. |
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Ruth Ellen Dance
The Ruth Ellen Dance School, based in Royston, offers grade and vocational classes in ballet, modern dance and tap and ran our free children's country dance workshop |
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Stephanie Prior School of Dancing
The Stephanie Prior School of Dancing is one of the longest running dance schools in Hertfordshire, offering classes in freestyle disco, street dance, hip hop, rock'n'roll, lyrical, ballroom and Latin American styles. |
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Terry not only helps organised the festival but is a wonderful photographer who contributes many of the pictures on this website.
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Guests and previous participants |
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Alison Balsom
World renowned trumpeter Alison Balsom was brought up and educated in Royston and was the very special guest at our Grand Festival Concert in 2008. Alison is the first British woman to have won best female at the Classical Brit awards. |
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Richard Lambert is a composer who initiated and directed the original incarnation or Royston Arts Festival from 1982 to 1986. |
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Angela Patchett
Hertfordshire-based Angela Patchett is the author of Angela Angel and the Magic Chair, a book for children who love fun, magic and teddy bears. |
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Tam Lin
Folk band Tam Lin are passionate performers of music and song from the British Isles, Ireland, France and Northern Spain and you can also expect some hints of old time mountain music and maybe the odd Cajun tune or two. |
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Theatretrain
Theatretrain, based at Stage Right Studios in Royston, is a national group providing professional training in the performing arts for young people aged 6 - 18.
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Venues |
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The Banyers Hotel
The Banyers, a Grade II listed building, is one of the oldest hotels in Royston. |
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Curwens Solicitors
Established for over 200 years, Curwens retains the traditional values of a local law firm and is the host for one of our many art exhibitions. |
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Green Man
The Green Man is a historic pub located in the middle of Royston and host live music. |
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Greneway School
Greneway middle school, named after an ancient pathway linking Royston to the villages, boasts an impressive performance space. |
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Meridian School
Meridian is a Maths and Computing Specialist College and the only school in the town for students aged between thirteen and nineteen. |
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Palazzo |
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Royston Cave
Royston Cave is a unique man-made cavern that features an extensive range of wall carvings, is believed to date from the 13th century, and may have been used by the Knights Templar. |
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Royston Methodist Church |
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Royston Museum
Royston Museum contains an extensive collection of artefacts, photographs, newspapers, documents, textiles and paintings relating to the history of the town. |
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Royston Parish Church
The Priory Church of St John the Baptist, Royston, lies in the heart of the town and is the perfect setting for our Grand Festival Concert.
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Friends |
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Official Town Guide
Read the official guide to Royston, produced by the Town Council and detailing everything you might need to know about the town. |
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The Listing
Royston's foremost 'what's on' magazine is distributed free to 7,000 addresses in the town and to 9,000 in the neighbouring villages. |
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The Crow is Royston's main weekly newspaper and a keenly read source of news and views including full coverage of local sports and entertainment.
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Others |
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A month of mayhem (June-July).
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A week of summer fun.
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A stunning selection of visiting writers in all genres, runs from September to October.
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In the past has featured musicians from the Royston Music Centre. |
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